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Quotes About Stereotype

Don't judge a book by its movie.
~ Anoynomous
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
~ Lee Trevino
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
~ Nina Simone
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
~ Nina Simone
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
~ Heinrich Heine
What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?
~ John Lurie
I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.
~ Ray Charles
There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?
~ Lucy Hale
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
~ Tori Amos
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
~ Muhammad Ali
Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.
~ Frances Hardinge
That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
~ W. Kamau Bell
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
~ William Faulkner
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
~ Graham Greene
Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.
~ Bill Burr
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
~ Ronald Reagan
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
~ Chris Patten
You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
~ Jesse Ventura
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
~ Salman Rushdie
Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking
~ Steven Aitchison
The grander the name, the blander the dame.
~ Will Ferguson
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
~ William Faulkner
P. J. O'Rourke: "North Korea has a 99% literacy rate, a disciplined, hardworking society, and a $900 per capita GDP. Morocco has a 43.7% literacy rate, a society that spends all day drinking coffee and pestering tourists to buy rugs, and a $3,260 per capita GDP."1
~ William J. Bernstein